CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium

2023 CNAS Symposium program

Call For Presentations

Date: The 2024 CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster session is scheduled for Thursday, April 25, PSU Ballroom

Abstract & Video deadline: TBD

Judging: Thursday, April 25, 12:00 Noon-1:30 PM

Open to Campus and the Public: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Awards Ceremony: 3:30 PM with guest speaker

About the event

All current CNAS undergraduate students and December 2023 graduates are invited to submit a poster for the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Presentations are refereed, and awards are given for first place ($100) and second place ($50) for each CNAS department and the cooperative engineering program.

Contact your advisor for abstract submission instructions information or see the following link: Instructions and Examples

Please submit your video and abstract to Gale Lininger, galelininger@missouristate.edu

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2023 Winners


Biology: Ecology, Wildlife and Conservation

1st Place: Taylor Hiers
A NOVEL APPROACH TO SCORING RHYTHMIC VARIATION IN EVOLVING WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLIS) SONGS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay McEntee

2nd Place: Gabriela Rivero
THE PHENOLOGY OF A FEMALE CAROLINA WREN CALL HELPS ELUCIDATE ITS FUNCTION
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay McEntee

Biology: Cellular, Microbiology and Genetics

1st Place: Emma Braun
BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN QUANTUM DOTS AND ACTIN
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kyoungtae Kim

2nd Place: Daniel Garten, Sophia Antonpoulos, Sara Woodman.
DIETARY GRAPE SEED EXTRACT SUPPLEMENTATION INHIBITS NOCICEPTION AND MEDIATES GABAERGIC CHANGES IN A PRECLINICAL MODEL OF CHRONIC TMD
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Durham

Chemistry and Biochemistry

1st Place: Maximo Reyes, Jessica Linson, Preston Clubb, Martin Winburn, Barry Cheung.
EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA TREATMENT ON THE TOXICITY OF POLYSTYRENE NANOPLASTICS IN WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.)
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cyren Rico

2nd Place: Krusha Bhakta
STUDIES OF BACKBONE INTERCONVERSION AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES IN DNA VIA NMR.
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Gary Meints

Computer Science

1st Place: Gavin Moore, C.J. Moore
AN EVOLUTIONARY MULTI-AGENT POLICY OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK USING SELF-ADVERSARIAL TRAINING SCENARIOS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Siming Liu

2nd Place: Nathan Hartzler, Brenna Dove, Nat Thompson, Joshua Stevens, Ingrid Perkins
COMBINING MULTIPLE DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR ONLINE SARCASM DETECTION
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Mahammed Y. Belkhouche

Cooperative Engineering

1st Place: Joshua Cox
THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND FORMATE PRODUCTION
Faculty advisors: Dr. Daniel Moreno

2nd Place: Stephen Davis, Austin Crabtree, Justin Leuthauser
AUTO LAWN: WEBPAGE CONTROLLED YARD DEVICES
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Rohit Dua

Geology

1st Place Oluchi Nweke
SEQUIOTA CAVE SPRING AND POND INFLUENCE ON WATER QUALITY IN GALLOWAY BRANCH, SE SPRINGFIELD, MO
Faculty advisor: Dr. Bob Pavlowsky and Hannah Bieser (OEWRI RA)

2nd Place: Abby Momberg
CAN BOOKS BE TOXIC? AN XRF ANALYSIS OF ARSENIC CONTENT IN BOOK COVERS FROM MEYER LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Doug Gouzie

Geography, Geospatial and Planning

1st Place: Genevieve Stark, Katherine Rudolph
WHO WELCOMES REFUGEES? REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AGENCIES AND THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.
Faculty advisor: Dr. Emily Frazier

2nd Place: Allison Gargus
BEACH EROSION TRENDS AT CRAB POND POINT SEA TURTLE NESTING SITE, SOUTHWEST COAST, JAMAICA
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Bob Pavlowsky and Hannah Lowery (OEWRI RA)

Hospitality Leadership

1st Place: Madison Smith, Alyson Morgans, Jake Boaz, Dodgle Schapeler
DESTINATION IMAGE OF KANSAS CITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GENERATION Z
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nancy Kageyama

Mathematics

1st Place: Grace Herbold, Jake Gabbert
DEVELOPING FRACTION-AS-MEASURE CONCEPTIONS TO SUPPORT GROWTH IN STUDENTS’ ALGEBRAIC REASONING CAPACITIES IN MATH 101
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Patrick Sullivan

Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science

1st Place: Matthew Bruenning
IMPLEMENTATION OF A HOUGH TRANSFORM ON A FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tiglet Besara

2nd Place: Rachel Lee
DEVELOPMENT OF ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED FORCEFIELDS TO MODEL TUNNEL BARRIERS IN SUPERCONDUCTIONG QUBITS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ridwan Sakidja